From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-02-21T00:40:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Deconstructor to close file

On 20.02.2007 14:12, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 2/20/07, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 20.02.2007 01:00, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> > There is no meaningful concept of a destructor in Ruby. There are
>> > finalizers, but they're not guaranteed to be called.
>> Are you sure about that?  I know the statement to be true for Java but
>> in which situation (other than an interpreter crash) is a finalizer not
>> invoked?
> 
> I recall reading a few things over the last couple of years. On
> program termination, I think they will be called, but things could
> happen to keep an object around a lot longer than you think -- which
> means that it's not something to trust.

Yeah, definitely do not trust on the ti